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    A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

    Iris Heid, Gonçalo Abecasis, Sudha Iyengar and colleagues report the results of a large genome-wide association meta-analysis of macular degeneration based on over 43,000 subjects. They identify 16 new risk lo...

    Lars G Fritsche, Wilmar Igl, Jessica N Cooke Bailey, Felix Grassmann in Nature Genetics (2016)

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    A Candidate Gene Association Study Identifies DAPL1 as a Female-Specific Susceptibility Locus for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)

    Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among white caucasians over the age of 50 years with a prevalence rate expected to increase markedly with an anticipated increase in th...

    Felix Grassmann, Ulrike Friedrich, Sascha Fauser, Tina Schick in NeuroMolecular Medicine (2015)